World Happenings Briefly Too
Army Minister PC Spender announced Australian casualties in the Syrian campaign totaled 1,682 with 297 killed. A British source reported German raiders stripping vessels, signaling a metal shortage for the Reich. British Columbia's trade with Japan is frozen amid policy moves, corvettes built in Canadian yards aid UK and Canadian waters, and Navy Minister Macdonald commented. The Clermont Ferrand tribunal handed sentences in absentia to 23 Free French followers of De Gaulle, ranging from death to imprisonment. Capt. W J Symons VC from Gallipoli was named commander of a special feed unit in the UK Home Guard. Richard Allen, an American Red Cross delegate in France, doubts reports of famine in Europe.
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Reich
British Columbia
Japan
United Kingdom
Navy
Macdonald
Clermont Ferrand
Charles de Gaulle
W. J. Symons
Gallipoli
Home Guard
American Red Cross
Richard Allen
France
Europe
Inquiries to RAF Information Bureau Amusing and Piquant
The Air Ministry Information Bureau answers about 10 000 public questions weekly as London Listener notes. Examples include a German plane over a garden for two hours seeking two Spitfires, a businessman wanting a bombing raid on a debtor’s factory map spot, and a Naples map query to protect a villa. A seven year old asked if five pence weekly buys an Air Force uniform. response offered a future free uniform when grown up.
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Air Ministry Information Bureau
R.A.F
London Listener
Abe
Fone
Spitfire
Germany
Naples
Mosquitoes Speed Up After Each Full Meal
A study notes mosquitoes enter a rapid, intensified feeding phase after completing a meal, suggesting heightened host-seeking behavior following digestion. Researchers observed behavioral shifts in sensing cues and flight patterns, with potential implications for disease transmission dynamics.
Wartime policy and international cooperation debate
Fragmented text discusses war policy, peace of mind, and economic strain amid a broad call for American collaboration with Britain and other nations. It references food production, wartime mobilization, and the aim to build a united front beyond borders to secure victory and future stability.
Job Offer From Occupied Poland Reporter
A wartime classified notice seeks a general representative for selling portraits of the Fuehrer. The ad promises a position with a portrait tree and autobiography and requests applications from interested parties.
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Poland
Nentauve
Fuehrer
Ture
Worta Posts At Pharijong Post Office In Tibet
Worta records the highest post office at Pharijong in Tibet Asia rising to an altitude of 15300 feet above sea level. The note highlights remote Himalayan postal reach and extreme elevation. Local officials mark the altitude as a geographic record for the region.
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Worta
Pharijong
Tibet
Asia
Anne Adams Pattern 4810 for women sizes 36 to 50
Advertises Pattern 4810 by Anne Adams as a fresh cotton dress style for hot weather. Describes scalloped buttoning, V neck, trim options, flat shoulders, wide waistband, and panel front skirt for added height. Available in sizes 36 through 50 with yardage details and price. orders to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg.
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Arne Adams
Anne Adams
Winnipeg
Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Lan
Epistle of James Devotional on Faith and Works
A devotional exploration of James chapter 1 and 2, emphasizing pure religion, swift hearing, slow speech, and temperate anger. It interprets faith as works, discusses the word of truth, and notes James the Righteous, with references to Shema and related biblical ideas.
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James
Dummelow
James the Righteous
Ruskin
Immunization Push Cuts Diphtheria in Cape Breton
Health zones in TA report on Cape Breton Island diphtheria immunization showing toxoid should begin early in life. Cape Breton started school campaigns in 1938 at Glace Bay, expanding county wide. Cases dropped from 127 with 13 deaths in 1938 to 16 cases and no deaths in 1940. Officials stress immunizing pre school children as crucial to prevent major outbreaks.
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Cape Breton
Canadian Public Health Journal
Health League of Canada
Cape Breton Island
Glace Bay
Cape Breton County
New colonel jokes troops with feast command
A newly promoted colonel ordered his regiment to “fall upon the food” as if attacking the enemy. A sergeant was caught slipping away with two bottles of wine, replying that he was “obeying orders.” The article notes over sixty mosquito species are known on the continent.
Brightest Stars Foresee Hope Amid London Blitz
Miss Beatrice Gordon Holmes, famed British banker, spoke of wartime Britain facing scarcity yet planning ahead. She described living with nightly risk, the London office fire damage, and vows to press on using bright stars as guides.
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Beatrice Gordon Holme
England
Great Britain
Idea of mass produced planes gains footing in Russia
Fifty years earlier critics mocked mass production of airplanes, saying they must be built individually. Now the notion is accepted. A curious scene near Denver features rock seats carved into natural slopes forming a stage.
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Russia
Noone
Red Creek
Denver
Colo
Russia Sees Prolonged War Across Multiple Fronts
Soviet grand strategy centers on a drawn out conflict requiring vast man and machine power to erode the enemy. It rejects blitz concepts and anticipates lengthy fighting across fronts, based on discussions with Red Army officers in Spain and translated Soviet sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soviet Union
E. Cecil-Smith
Red Army
Spain
It can Be Done by Westinghouse Electric to Save Metals
A large manufacturer, Westinghouse Electric, has saved enough aluminum in six months to build 180 bombers by redesigning products with substitute materials. This reduced aluminum use by 1,500,000 pounds from 1941 requirements, and also saved 1,500,000 pounds of nickel and 160,000 pounds of zinc.
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Westinghouse Electric
Inc
Lawrence of Arabia Rejected for Front Line Duty
The famed British figure Lawrence of Arabia was rejected for front line service in the First World War due to anemia and short stature, reflecting early medical screening limits of volunteers.
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Britain
Lawrence of Arabia
Mighty Midget Yields Bargains and Jobs in Free Want Ads
Mickie invites readers to use the bargain filled want ads to rent tools, locate jobs, find lost items, and turn unused items into cash, promising help for farmers and households. The column promotes practical, frugal uses of the listings to benefit readers.
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PC. Spender
United States
Netherlands East Indies
Batavia
Reuters
Syria
Lebanon
French Morocco
Dakar
RAF
Information Bureau
Vitalin
Promie
Tate
Font
Wien
Muron
Marty
Stein
Ameria
INDU
AL Anas
Mickie
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